Quotes about life

To be alive at all is to have scars.

I guess I’m trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.

I have wondered why it is that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death than others.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

Is there life before death? — that is the question!

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant.

[Nelson, about Pru] She had complained for years about living with his mother and Ronnie and about his dead-end job babysitting these pathetic dysfunctionals, boosting his own ego at their expense, caring more about them than he did about his own wife and children, but what it boiled down to in his baffled mind was something she once shouted, her green eyes bright as broken glass in her reddened face: My life with you is too small. Too small. As if being a greaseball lawyer's input organiser and easy lay was bigger. But the size of a life is how you feel about it.

...he tries to view his life as a brick of sorts, set in place with a slap in 1933 and hardening ever since, just one life in rows and walls and blocks of lives.

Life is a hill that gets steeper the more you climb.